RIDDLE: Nothing in the world can stop a person with it. Nothing in the world can help a person without it. What is “it”? Answer at end.
I’ve never seen anyone who looks quite like him. He’s 5’11” and weighs 346 pounds. That’s not a misprint. He weighs three hundred and forty-six pounds. His name is Bud Jeffries (www.strongerman.com) from Lakeland, Florida and he’s reported to be “the world’s strongest drug-free man.”
In June 2005, Bud was a guest speaker in my “Social Problems in Sports” course. To get the attention of the class, he started with a few strength feats. He bent a railroad spike, lifted a student over his head with just one finger, and bent a ¾" thick piece of steel into a “U” shape as easily as you or I would bend a plastic straw. Before anyone could think he was “muscle bound,” he also did a full split.
Then the questions started. “What type of diet are you on?” “Do you use machines or free weights?” “What kind of supplements do you take?” “How much do you work out?” “Were your parents strong?”
Bud short-circuited all these questions by saying that everyone always wants to know “THE SECRET.” He said that the secret is not nutrition, equipment or even genetics.
Bud then revealed the secret in just two words. They are: “DESIRE WINS!” Bud said that desire beats diet; desire beats equipment; desire beats supplements; desire even beats genetics. Desire beats everything.
Desire wins in sports. Desire also wins in school. In the long run, attitude beats aptitude. As motivational speaker and author Zig Ziglar says, “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
I remember an old cartoon . . . a group of penguins are looking up at another penguin who’s flying. The flying penguin looks down and nonchalantly says something like, “You guys just never flapped your wings hard enough!”
If you really want to fly — you’ll flap you’re wings harder. If you really want to do well in school or in sports — you’ll work harder. If you really want to do extraordinarily well in anything — you’ll kick it up a few notches and work even harder!
EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE!
How much do you want it?
Are you willing to pay the price?
DESIRE WINS!
RIDDLE: Nothing in the world can stop a person with it. Nothing in the world can help a person without it. What is “it”? By now I’m sure you know the answer—Desire.
Thanks, Bud Jeffries!
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Rob Gilbert
